one week!!

Evening guys,

It has finally been one week since my surgery!

I don't want to sound like I'm whinging because I do feel so much better than I have during the last week but Monday was a really hard day. I'm so sick of "eating" liquids and can barely find the motivation to force myself to eat. Don't get me wrong I'm not in much pain, my swelling is down again, I can breathe and talk and walk and do most normal things ...I'm just fed up. I'm dreaming about chips 'n' cheese.

Positives of the day included managing to clear my other nostril using warm water and cotton buds - disgusting but oddly satisfying - and walking as far as my local shop. Although this was no more than a 15 minute round trip it was the first time I had had to interact with people that weren't medics, my family or friends. It was scary and I felt really self conscious but I mananged and came home scarred but clutching some chocolate milk, strawberries and an actual heatpack (my makeshift one was rubbish). Another positive of the day is that I manged a second small bowl of my dinner. (pureed mac n cheese for anyone interested). All I seem to want to eat at the moment is carbs and cheese which is unfortunate since I'm living mostly off Lucozade, milkshakes and fruit juice.

Apart from being bored and feeling rubbish the only actual 'setback' today has been that I knocked one of my stitches when I was cleaning my teeth. It looked like it was bleeding really badly but it was probably just the combo of blood and spit (yum). It didn't hurt so I've just left it as it is.

Today has also been the worst day in terms of headaches/jaw pain. I think because I've regained feeling in most parts of my mouth jaw (still nothing on my nose or cheeks) I am able to feel the pain I have more clearly - that's to say I don't think the pain is getting worse. I had to take an extra dose of painkiller at bedtime (on top of the codeine I have already been taking) because the pressure in my head was like nothing I have ever felt. It came on really suddenly at bed time and it did (thank f@*&) lessen once I had taken the extra paracetamol.  The heat pack also really helped.

Anyway, here's a grumpy selfie of my massive tattie heed: